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irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 12:15
Arrests over Bahrain protests

Bahraini police arrested a number of Shias at the weekend for shouting anti-government slogans during a religious festival in the Gulf Arab state, the interior ministry said today.

Police clashed with Shia marchers on Sunday, less than a week after the kingdom, ruled by its Sunni Muslim minority, repealed an emergency law that quashed weeks of protests.

“Some small groups broke the law on Sunday by exploiting the commemoration of the death of the Imam Hadi to stage marches and repeat political slogans that violate [the law],” the official news agency quoted spokesman Tareq bin Dayna as saying.

“A number of those provoking disturbances were arrested … and have been transferred to public prosecution.”

Residents and leading Shia opposition group Wefaq said on Sunday that police used tear gas, rubber bullets, sound grenades and birdshot to break up marches in several Shia villages around the capital Manama.

Marchers in some of the parades shouted “Down, down (King) Hamad” and “The people want the fall of the regime.” Some of the gatherings were purely religious, residents said. …more